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Monthly Archives: August 2014
Yuhui Choe in a Pas de Deux
This is Yuhui Choe and Alexander Campbell dancing a Pas De Deux from Act III of Sleeping Beauty. I’m posting this because it is very pretty and very cheerful, and my last two posts have been neither.
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Medication Frustrations
Part of the problem with taking medication is differing advice. When I was prescribed my Synthroid medication, I was told to take it half an hour before eating anything else. (I had conflicting advice about caffeine.) Of course, I was … Continue reading
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Tagged Cleveland Clinic, Levothyroxin, synthroid, thyroid, thyroid cancer
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“So why choose fear?”
A few days ago, I saw a customer wearing a shirt at work that said, “No other road, no other way, no day but today.” Everyone who has ever seen Rent will recognize that quote from the AIDS meeting. The … Continue reading
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Coronation of the Virgin by Velasquez
I still remember learning that Velasquez was Spain’s most important painter. It seemed strange to me that there was even another painter from Spain, besides Picasso. Since then, I’ve learned to appreciate the artwork of many Spanish painters, including Velasquez … Continue reading
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Penelope Franklin Simmons
Another excellent American sculpture.
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O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
This is poem is an oddity for Walt, who usually wrote poems in free verse. O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won; The port is near, … Continue reading
In Memoriam: Robin McLaurin Williams (1951-2014)
An excellent remembrance of Robin Williams.
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Come Scoglio by Kiri Te Kanawa
I have yet to listen to, or see, Cosi Fan Tutte. Still, this is very beautiful, and I love Kiri Te Kanawa.
American Heiress, aka Books I’m not Reading Now
I tend to read in a feast/fast fashion. I find at times that I can read book after book after book, and at other times I simply cannot finish anything. For the past six weeks I was in one of … Continue reading
Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
This is my favorite poem. I can’t relate to it personally (thank God!) and yet the visual images the poem conjures are unforgettable. Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on … Continue reading
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